Mary Lee – Savannah Unplugged

Great white sharks take a Georgia holiday

bill dawers — Mon, 06 Jan 2014 23:32:38 +0000

I’ve been following the story of OCEARCH and its study of great white shark behavior for a while now, but I missed the Christmas Eve news about Mary Lee — a 16-foot, 3400 pound great white — swinging by Tybee Island on Christmas eve.

Check out Mary Landers’ piece in the Savannah Morning News: Great white sharks visited Tybee for holidays

And here’s some embedded media (all from a week to two weeks old) not only about Mary Lee, but also about Katharine and Genie:

Post by OCEARCH.

The OCEARCH Shark Tracker is pretty interesting.

Huge great white shark Mary Lee visiting St. Helena Sound, between Savannah and Charleston

bill dawers — Fri, 08 Nov 2013 22:11:25 +0000

I’ve written quite a bit over the last year or so about OCEARCH‘s tagging of great white sharks and the researchers’ Shark Tracker.

Well check out these latest images (click here if embed is glitchy):

Post by OCEARCH.

On that same Facebook page, you can also see a rather gruesome pic of a dolphin that has had half of its body ripped away. It’s unclear if Mary Lee was responsible, but she has been in the general area.

Mary Lee weighs over 3500 pounds and is over 16 feet long.